Making girls into women American women's writing and the rise of lesbian identity

Title:

Author:

Kent, Kathryn R., 1966-

Personal Author:

Kent, Kathryn R., 1966-

Publication Information:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

xi, 355 p.

Series:

Series Q

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Series Q.

Contents:

"Single white female": the sexual politics of spinsterhood in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown folks -- "Trying all kinds": Louisa May Alcott's pedagogic erotics -- "Scouting for girls": reading and recruitment in the early twentieth century -- "Excreate a no sense": the erotic currency of Gertrude Stein's Tender buttons -- The M multiplying: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and the pleasure of influence, part I -- Influence and invitation: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the pleasures of influence, part 2.

Personal Subject:

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888-Criticism and interpretation.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946-Criticism and interpretation.

Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972-Criticism and interpretation.

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979-Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Lesbians in literature.

American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.

Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Girls in literature.